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Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller by Angelica Duran 9781557536815
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The... -
Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the Shelter Pet by 9781557532602
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68What happens behind the doors of the animal shelter? This book will introduce the reader to the work culture of animal shelter employees, volunteers, activists, educators, and pets. By weaving... -
Animal Control Management: A New Look at a Public Responsibility by 9781557535405
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.24This book is the first of its kind to discuss in detail the actual management of local animal control programs as opposed to the care of the animals. The book covers those financial, personnel, legal... -
Re-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective by Elena Coda 9781557537331
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Re-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that aims to offer a plurality of visions on terrorism, expanding its meaning across time and space and... -
Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror by 9781557536006
Booksplease Price: £19.24A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members"ten men and two women"who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their... -
Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon by James Barker 9781557537812
Booksplease Price: £75.41Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish... -
Idylls by Theocritus 9780911198058
Booksplease Price: £31.17These thirty Idylls, written by the Sicilian Theokritos in the third century B.C., present the charms of rustic life in learned, polished verse aimed at a sophisticated audience. A bucolic paradise... -
Falcon and the Eagle by John D. Treadway 9781557531469
Booksplease Price: £24.90Treadway's work is the first comprehensive study of Montenegro's relations with her Great-Power neighbors on the eve of WWI.Book InformationISBN 9781557531469Author John D. TreadwayFormat PaperbackP -
Between Pets and People: Importance of Animal Companionship by Alan Beck 9781557530776
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Pets play a greater role in our emotional and physical health than ever before, says the Purdue University professor who is co-author of his revised edition of Between Pets and People: The Importance... -
To the Other: Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak 9781557530240
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The fruit of the author's many courses on Emmanuel Levinas in Europe and the United States, this study is a clear introduction for graduate students and scholars who are not yet familiar with... -
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1027 by David S. Luft 9781557535900
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not... -
Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope De Vega by 9781557530448
Booksplease Price: £33.06Between 1585 and 1631, the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega wrote more than forty-five plays dealing with the theme of conjugal honor. Drawing on recent feminist theories and touching on literary,... -
Applied Ethics in Animal Research: Philosophy, Regulation and Laboratory Applications by John P. Gluck 9781557531377
Booksplease Price: £12.70This volume is a collection of chapters all contributed by individuals who have presented their ideas at conferences and who take moderate stands with the use of animals in research. Specifically,... -
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Narrative Transformations from ""L'Astree"" to ""Le Berger Extravagant by 9781557532350
Booksplease Price: £55.27In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree and Charles Sorel's Le Berger extravagant, the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist... -
Comparative Cultural Studies of Latin America: Clcweb Annual 2 by 9781557533586
Booksplease Price: £36.65The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent... -
Cultural Shaping of Violence: International Perspectives by 9781557533739
Booksplease Price: £24.18Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence... -
Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue by 9781557534576
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.57In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to... -
More Than Bridges: 125 Years of Purdue Civil Engineering (Founders) by Klink 9781557536389
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.91Bridges and More takes the reader from the early years of Civil Engineering when Purdue's campus consisted of a smattering of red brick buildings surrounded by grassy meadows and roads flanked by... -
Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Booksplease Price: £47.06The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In... -
Afternoons with Puppy: Lessons for Life from a Therapist and His Animals by Aubrey H. Fine
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Afternoons with Puppy is a heartwarming account of dynamic relationships and outcomes involving a therapist, his therapy animals, and his patients, gathered from almost two decades of ongoing... -
A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser' by Leah Garrett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) TannhAuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... -
Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror by Sophia A. McClennen
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror -... -
Knowing Subjects: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature by Barbara Simerka
Booksplease Price: £44.64In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study, cognitive cultural studies, to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition... -
New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond: Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition by Ethan Goffman
Booksplease Price: £35.14New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond gathers a variety of distinguished scholars, from Eugene Goodheart to Peter Novick to Nathan Glazer, from Morris Dickstein to Suzanne Klingenstein to Ilan... -
Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction by Thomas O. Beebee
Booksplease Price: £34.25In his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction, Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence... -
Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye by Miriam Ascarelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Mention the words 'Seeing Eye', and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially-sighted. Mention the name 'Dorothy Harrison Eustis', and most people will not recognize... -
Teaming With Your Therapy Dog by Ann R. Howie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.98Today's therapy dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs, not just supervisors. Teaming with one's dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well... -
Becoming a Spacewalker: My Journey to the Stars by Jerry L. Ross 9781557536938
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58This nonfiction picture book is a children's version of NASA astronaut Jerry L. Ross's autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer, designed for... -
Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Issues, and Practice by Nancy Parish-Plass 9781557536518
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma,... -
![On Emerging from Hyper Nation: Saramago's ""Historical"" Trilogy by Ronald W. Sousa 9781557536976](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1862591/1862162/9781557536976__97984.1707252239.jpg?c=1 "On Emerging from Hyper Nation: Saramago's ""Historical"" Trilogy by Ronald W. Sousa 9781557536976")
On Emerging from Hyper Nation: Saramago's ""Historical"" Trilogy by Ronald W. Sousa 9781557536976
Booksplease Price: £37.94On Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousa's attempt to answer the question, "Why do I smile on reading one of Saramago's `historical' novels?" Why that reaction of emotional release?... -
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship: A New National Economic Imperative by Marlene Orozco 9781557539373
Booksplease Price: £34.94Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts... -
![Mel Gibson's ""Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications by Zev Garber 9781557534057](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2657762/2657102/9781557534057__32699.1714538852.jpg?c=1 "Mel Gibson's ""Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications by Zev Garber 9781557534057")
Mel Gibson's ""Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications by Zev Garber 9781557534057
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released on Ash Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and auditoriums across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the... -
Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian by Jill P. May 9781612497389
Booksplease Price: £33.53Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental... -
Beyond Stereotypes: American Jews and Sports by Ari F. Sclar 9781612499109
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American... -
Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals by Joyce M. Ray 9781557536648
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly... -
The Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: A Biography of William Carol Latte by Frederick Whitford 9781557533951
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.94William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for... -
Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach by Clark Butler 9781557534804
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.15Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's book also lays claim to... -
Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace by Mohammad Taeb 9781557534828
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.21Covering more than the conventional 'food-only' role of the agriculture, the international contributors to ""Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace"" detail how the solution to agricultural... -
Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century by Gabriela C. Weaver 9781557537249
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.02Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them... -
The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People by Arnold Arluke 9781557534323
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.88The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in...